Since the drop in the value of the mark, smuggling between Switzerland and Germany has increased enormously. Clothing ia particularly favoured, as it can be conveyed across the frontier 111 a variety of unsuspected ways. A man recently arrested was wearing no fewer than three new suits, while women frequently wear several layers of costly silk undergarments. A woman was recently find 1,000,000 marks by the Constance Tribunal for attempting to smuggle across the frontier clothing sufficient to fill ten large trunks, while at the same court two la ter another woman was fined 500,000 marks for ft nimiior offenco*
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17629, 5 December 1922, Page 8
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100Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17629, 5 December 1922, Page 8
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